We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Visualization solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The performance and design of Informatica have been very valuable. I find the performance faster than, say, Oracle Data Integrator or DataStage."
"It works with any multi-databases, so it works with Sybase, SQL Server. Also, the performance is really good and it is easy to use."
"Informatica PowerCenter is a very good ETL tool."
"In the end, you have structured, proper data for use in an integrated BI solution."
"PowerCenter performs well during data transformation and optimization."
"The most valuable features of Informatica PowerCenter are the ease of use, and development, and is simple to find resources."
"The technical support for Informatica PowerCenter is good."
"Good product if you are trying implement data quality, data integration, and data management projects."
"The solution has great features which nobody can beat, you can do a lot of customizations, such as use different dimensions and colorize them. Additionally, you can use the numeric values for the customization, which is an exceptional feature."
"The maps and colors and interface are all fantastic."
"It is a very stable product. It doesn't break."
"Tableau is easy to use compared to some other solutions, such as Excel."
"There is a lot of APIs available, which means that Tableau can be customized to a large extent."
"Scheduled extract and the multiple connectors are fantastic!"
"Easy for beginners to use"
"Since Tableau is on the cloud, we haven't faced any challenges around scalability."
"The licensing cost for Informatica is very high. Other all-in-one solutions have much lower prices than Informatica."
"PowerCenter could be improved by having more big data components. Normally, we prefer Informatica as a relational database, but nowadays, companies are trying to understand and use big data components. I think it would be useful if we had more chances to create a hub ecosystem because customers try to use some data integration tasks by SQL, Spark and Spark codes, and Scala, but at the end of the day, the company will understand that we need to trace all the steps. An ETL tool is a must for that company, if we're talking about the regulated industries like finance, telcos, etc. If Informatica's biggest ecosystems feature were okay, I would prefer to use it."
"If you want to transfer a ZIP file, it is a pain. You need to use Command-Line. Sometimes we just want to transfer a file. It should be easy to move them from A to B."
"I would like to see it be able to import data from NoSQL."
"I would like to see improvements made to the custom transformations. It should be more open for users that want to write their own code and use cases."
"Informatica PowerCenter could improve on the documentation for the implementation. The documents provided are not very good for a new user."
"This product is going to decommission in the next couple of years."
"Informatica are very rigid when it comes to cloud migrations which discourages customers in moving their solution to the cloud."
"At the organizational level, increasing the servers' capabilities to support us as an enterprise tool."
"It needs a little bit more advanced modeling. I would like to see functionality like Cognos has in the Framework Manager."
"In the next release, there should be more information describing each chart because users have a difficult time telling them apart. They should also include the animations/videos, similar to Power BI."
"The Hyper Extract functionality is not as strong as that provided by Microsoft SQL."
"Tableau is difficult to scale because of the cost, which makes it difficult to scale."
"The solution could use more features in data analytics."
"Licensing and pricing options could be made better so that more users would be able to use it."
"The process of embedding the dashboards on external portals and websites could be improved."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 5th in Data Visualization with 78 reviews while Tableau is ranked 1st in Data Visualization with 293 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Informatica PowerCenter writes "Stable, provides good support, and integrating it with other systems is very fast, but its pricing is expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and StreamSets, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. Tableau report.
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